Upstate updates: Follies and cowboys

The Northern New York Follies blog challenges St Lawrence legislators to grow up, and pores over a master plan for ATV use in Lewis County: "It's time to put away the toy swords, climb down out of the treehouse and rejoin the adult world, people. Take up the people's real business, which is operating county government in the best possible way. Save the whining, carping and complaining for cocktail parties and fishing trips. Grow up."

New York Cowboy looks at oil leases on public lands in the state, and the state's new policy to lower the flag when a New York state soldier is killed: "There have been 172 New Yorkers who have died in Iraq, so it seems likely, if we continue on our current course, there will be a lot of days with the flag at half mast."